Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 1967
Winged Dialogue
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"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...
- 1969
Sorrows
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Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King...
- 1969
Political Portraits
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Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...
- 1949
Christmas U.S.A.
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Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a phone call. Another man, in a kimono, walks in the woods,...
- 1968
Gammelion
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Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos’s oeuvre, marking the transition into his...
- 2003
Early Monthly Segments
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Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, now forms the opening to his film cycle, "My Hand Outstretched to the Winged...
- 1970
Alph
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Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
- 1968
The Mysteries
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"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...
- 1948
Psyche
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Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...
- 1940
A Christmas Carol
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Based on the story by Charles Dickens. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Preserved by the Oesterreichisches Filmmsuem, Vienna and Temenos Archive,...
- 1973
Hagiographia II
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The entire film was rephotographed and edited into Eniaios Cycle V. Filmed in Mistra, Greece.
- 1972
The Painting
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The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...
- 1967
The Dead Ones
The Dead Ones01967HD
Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...
- 1973
Heracles
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Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna
- 1949
Lysis
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Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...
- 2002
The Hedge Theater
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Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco...
- 1969
The Olympian
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Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.
- 1971
Saint Acteon
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Filmed in the gardens of the villa La Pietra, Fiesole, Italy. Preserved in Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.Original reversal film in Temenos...
- 1970
Hagiographia
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Filmed in Mistra, Greece. Preserved in Anthology Film Archives, New York.
- 1966
Ming Green
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This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...